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Re: Help with man page display in Etch



On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:53:25PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I'm trying to set up samba on etch in the USA. When I type
> man smb.conf I get a page which has strange multibyte sequences
> in it, e.g. “ and ” 

On a second look I don't think this is a locale problem. I found bug 
#418811 which seems to be what you are seeing. Things you should check:

- version of the samba-common package (the bug was fixed in 3.0.25b-1)
- if you get similar stuff in other man-pages.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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